Well, you'd probably want to support things like

w.postMessage({ command: "do cool thing",
                data: myBlob });

/ Jonas

Aaron Boodman wrote:
If you support worker.sendMessage(<stuff>), where <stuff> is defined
by convenience to be: whatever you are allowed to send
JSON.stringify(), then you could expand this in the future to also
allow blobs w/o changing anything about JSON.

- a

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Indeed. Blobs is a great idea. We'll probably have to create further JSON
extensions to support that.

/ Jonas

Aaron Boodman wrote:
+1, because I think it will be useful to pass other things to workers
that JSON cannot represent (blobs) in the future.

- a

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,

Ben just wrote up a patch to support JSON objects as well as primitive
values (0, null, false, etc) to be passed to and from workers using
postMessage.

Wanted to see what the reactions to this was. Is it a good idea or not?

I seem to recall this coming up in the past in the original feedback
about
what features people wanted.

The technical details are as follows:
Any of the following values are passed by value as-is:
* strings
* numbers
* booleans
* undefined
* null

Anything else is passed to JSON.stringify (defined by Ecmascript drafts
here[1]). If calling JSON.stringify throws the same error will be thrown
by
the function. Otherwise the message event fired on the other 'side' will
contain the result of JSON.parse.

/ Jonas



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